President Donald Trump asked Congress on Friday for $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon in fiscal year 2027—roughly a 40% increase from the agency’s already record-high 2026 spending plan—that would be offset by steep cuts to the Small Business Administration, Energy, and Health and Human Services Department, among others.

New York's attorney general joined 15 other states in a lawsuit against the Trump administration for cutting millions for the NIH.

This March week has an eerie echo of 2020. We cannot be sure where this new global disorder is headed. We listen for how the conflict unfolds and spreads, and whom it affects. We again follow distressing numbers, wonder what the U.S. government plans to do, and whom in authority to believe.